how to tell if curses is installed?

[Ari Moisio]

Hi

For  self-compiled programs you usually need  the dev packages, for 
example libncurses-dev on Debian.



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  Tom Fowle kirjoitti
> Subject: how to tell if curses is installed?
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 20:50:28 -0700
> From: Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm>
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> 
> Trying to configure asomewhat old satelite tracking program 
> "Predict2.2...
> the ./configure script claims it can't find either gcc or curses.h
> gcc is obviously present and accounted for, but I'm not sure how to tell if
> the curses library is installed.
>
> presume it is a part of debian wheezy's normal install?
> but general searches don't reveal a way of finding out, curses isn't, I
> guess, a "package"
>
> Thanks
> tom Fowle
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